Best beer in the world … from a Seattle convenience store?

You can buy pints of beer on tap at West Seattle’s Super Deli Mart, along with cleaning supplies, condoms and disposable cigarette lighters.

Some of the world’s best beer is stocked in bottles and kegs at what looks like any other convenience store. Port Brewing’s Angel’s Share. Escondidian Imperial Black IPA. A rotating selection of some of the best Pacific Northwest brews you’ll find.

And it’s all just down the aisle from the potato chip display.

Super Deli Mart was one of West Seattle’s best-kept secrets — until the rest of the world found out about it in The Atlantic on Thursday. Local writer Christopher Solomon lauded the nondescript store as a haven for beer connoisseurs and a community gathering spot, and his article shot to No. 2 on The Atlantic’s website.

A convenience store that pours some of the world’s best beers? You might do a double take, too.

“This convenience store may be the oddest place in North America to enjoy some of the best beers around — a quirky testament to Seattle’s redoubled passion for the frothy stuff,” Solomon wrote.

Take a look inside Super Deli Mart.

Owner Min Chung is a hard man to get on the phone. Running the convenience store keeps him busy, especially because he’s trying to create something different.

Chung grew up working at a convenience store, but never liked the traditional format.

“They’re all the same,” he said. “One person sells one thing and if it does well, everyone else copies it. There’s so much more to it than that.”

Like beer, wine and cigars. And lots of good company.

The store has become a neighborhood hangout, with people gathering in the aisles and around a long, wooden table donated by customer.

“Its kind of like Cheers,” said Jody Gottbehuet, a regular at Super Deli Mart.

Kind of. But Cheers didn’t also stock PopTarts and sandwich bread.

“I just had a very simple model,” Chung said. “I wanted a convenience store that has a good beer selection, a good wine selection — where people can just come and sit and have a good time.”